Re: using & in a string.

If you are executing this command from sqlplus than it is clear. The & character is used as the beginning of a variable. If you want to enter this character than you have to redefine this character with escape command

Hope this helps
Stefan

Patrick Joyal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a string that says : 'Front & back'
> I want to insert that string into a table :
>
> Insert Into Table1 (Description) values ('Front & back') ;
>
> resulting in :
>
> old 1: Insert into table1 (Description) values ('Front & back') ;
> new 1: Insert into table1 (Description) values ('Front ') ;
>
> 1 row created.
>
> My questions are :
> 1- Why this is happening?
> 2- How can I avoid that?
>
> (I found something for question number 2, but let see if you can come with
> something better.)
>
> thanks
>
> Patrick
>
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>
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Received on Mon Aug 07 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT